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Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers?

Posted by simoniker on from the turbocharge-your-interweb dept.

Wrighter writes "There's a new story at Yahoo about a new version of TCP called Fast TCP that might help increase the speed of file transfers. Sounds like it basically estimates the maximum efficient speed of your network, and then goes for it, dumping a lot of time-consuming error checking." There's also an article at the New Scientist with some additional information.

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  1. Uh oh... by ctishman · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Caltech is already in talks with Microsoft and Disney about using it for video on demand," the magazine added. "Hey! Let's take a technology that's potentially revolutionary, and give it to Microsoft!" Yay for Caltech!

  2. Great! by Lu+Xun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who needs erro>*H~@}&)aA=cking anyway?

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  3. You just need to hire the right marketing team... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... to get a good name for this technology.

    With Microsoft's, it would be ActiveTCP.

    With Intel's, it would be HyperTCP.

    And so on, and so forth.

  4. Man! by nhaines · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only I were using Fast TCP, this could have been first post!

  5. Re:uh BitTorrent? by ogre2112 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I foresee BitTorrent as being the next Slashdot craze. (See: Beowulf, Natalie Portman. . .)

    "Hey! This article is great! Imagine how BitTorrent would help it!"

  6. Re:You just need to hire the right marketing team. by pantropik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know why they don't just get nVidia to design it. That way the sending machine will only send the packets it thinks you're actually going to be able to see instead of the entire datastream.

    nTCP = instant speed increase.

  7. Error Checking by DASHSL0T · · Score: 5, Funny

    Error checking hasn't been removed from TCP; we've removed it from Slashdot story summaries instead, speeding up the posting by nearly 6000x.
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